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====== Keyboard Shortcuts ======

| |**Windows** |**Linux** |**OS X** |**Comments** |
|**Menu Bar** |Alt|||Toggle if Show Menu is unchecked.|
|**Zoom In** |+||| |
|**Zoom Out** |-||| |
|**Zoom In** |PgUp||| |
|**Zoom Out** |PgDn||| |
|**Fine Zoom In** |Alt +||| |
|**Fine Zoom Out** |Alt -||| |
|**Larger Scale Chart** |Ctrl+LeftArrowKey (or F7)||Cmd+LeftArrowKey| |
|**Smaller Scale Chart** |Ctrl+RightArrowKey (or F8)||Cmd+RightArrowKey| |
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|**Panning** |Arrow keys||| |
|**Panning Slowly** |Alt + Arrow keys||| |
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|**Quit OCPN** |Ctrl+Q||Cmd+Q| |
|**Preferences** | ||Cmd+,| |
|**Full Screen** |F11||Ctrl+Cmd-F| |
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|**Auto Follow** (on/off)|Ctrl+A (or F2)||Cmd+A| |

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==== The List sorted by Keys ====

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====Function Keys====

   * **F2**  toggle Auto Follow on / off
  * **F3**  toggle ENC Text.
  * **F4 **activates the chart measure pencil. **Esc **Stops it
  * **F5**  toggle Daylight, Dusk & Night mode, if built into the Chart ( "C", Ctrl+C, Ctrl+G)
  * **F6**  General Dimming, in steps, of the entire Screen. (except Mac OS X ) OpenGL must be off.
  * **F7**  Larger Scale Raster Chart (Scale In) or **Ctrl + Left-Arrow**
  * **F8**  Smaller Scale Raster Chart (Scale Out) or **Ctrl + Right-Arrow**
  * **F9 **Chart Quilting . Toggle on/off
  * **F11 **toggle Full Screen view.
  * **F12 **toggle Chart Outlines
  * **SHIFT + F6 **reverses the dimming.

====Hot Keys or Shortcut Keys====

  * **C**  change color scheme -new similar to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+G and F5
  * **D**  open/close the XX-charts zoom/scale weighting or detail slider.
  * **L**  toggle ENC Lights on/off. "Users Standard" display category.
  * **O**  toggle Chart Outlines. or **F12**
  * **T**  toggle ENC Text or **F3**
  * **S**  toggle ENC soundings.
  * **U**  toggle Quality of Data for Vector Charts.
  * **V**  toggle All navobjects except Active route & track, when enabled in View menu.
  * **A**  toggle bottom features, useful when anchoring. "Users Standard" Anchorage area & Anchor berth display category.
  * **D**  toggle Detail Slider (ENC, CM93 & Raster). Hide only works, if the slider lost focus.
  * **M**  toggle Measure Tool **F4**
  * **P**  toggle Pause of oesenc charts test
  * **Q**  toggle Chart Quilting
  * **+**  Zoom In
  * **-**  Zoom Out

====Alt Keys====

  * **Alt + "."** Toggles Menu Bar on/off of Show menu is not checked.
  * **Alt + Arrow Keys**. Moves the chart view in very small steps.
  * **Alt + "+"**  for fine scale zooming in.
  * **Alt + "-"**  for fine scale zooming out.

====Control Keys====

  * **Ctrl + scroll wheel**, zooming in/out in small steps
  * **Ctrl + Left-Arrow-Key**  Larger Scale Chart (Scale In) (F7)
  * **Ctrl + Right-Arrow****-Key**  Smaller Scale Chart (Scale Out) (F8)
  * **Ctrl + A**  Auto Follow
  * **Ctrl + B **toggle the Chart Bar.
  * **Ctrl + C**  Change color scheme - new similar to Ctrl+G, "C" and (F5)
  * **Ctrl + G*** cycles through green, red and normal screen.
  * **Ctrl + I **toggle small dialog, containing GPS status & Course/Up North Up Icons, on/off.
  * **Ctrl + M**  Drops Marker at current cursor position.
  * **Ctrl + N**  Activate next waypoint in an active route.
  * **Ctrl + O**  Drops Marker at current ownship position. (or Spacebar)
  * **Ctrl + Q**  Quits OpenCPN
  * **Ctrl + R**  Starts the Routing tool.** Esc**  ends creating route.
  * **Ctrl + Y**  Redo Mark/waypoint create, move or delete.
  * **Ctrl + Z**  Undo Mark/waypoint create, move or delete.
  * **Ctrl + ,**  the option Window is displayed.

====Numerical Keys====

  * **Keyboard number keys 0,1,2,…9** //__Change Chart Group__// - Changes view between the first 10 chart groups, if available.

====Other Keys and Clicks====

  * **Keyboard Arrow Keys**. Moves the chart view.
  * **Left clicking on a chart**, centers the chart on that point.
  * **Double clicking a vector chart**, displays all info for that point (exception below).
  * When the **cursor **becomes a **green arrow**, clicking pans in the direction od the arrow.
  * **Double clicking on an [[http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/tags/ais.html|AIS]] target**, displays the target query dialog.
  * **Double clicking on a mark or waypoint**, displays the Mark Properties Dialog
  * **Double clicking on a route or track**, displays the Route/Track Properties Dialog
  * **Right clicking on any chart**, access a context sensitive menu.
  * **Esc**  ends the process of route creation or stops the measure pencil.
  * **Right Mouse click on chart**  View center lat & long
  * **Left Mouse click on chart **moves to center of view (Touchscreen interface becomes a "Hand")

====Scroll Wheel====

  * **Scroll Wheel**, zooming in/out
  * **Alt + scroll wheel**, zooming in/out in small steps.

====Cursor====

  * **When the cursor becomes a green arrow**, clicking pans in the direction of the arrow.
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* **Ctrl-G**  Works on some Windows systems (depending on graphic driver)

* **MAC Cmd+A**  overrides standard "Select all text in current text box", might possibly be able to change to Ctrl+Cmd+A in next version.

* **Spacebar**  Drops Marker at current GPS position.  NOTE: Enable by manual edit of the opencpn.ini file. 
<code>
[Settings] …"SpaceDropMark=1", to activate the feature. 
[Settings] …"SpaceDropMark=0", to deactivates the feature.
</code>

* **[ and ]** keys for Chart Rotation when enabled. NOTE: Enable by manual edit of the opencpn.ini file. 
<code>
[Settings] EnableRotateKeys=1 
</code>

NOTE: This list may not be completely detailed and correct for now, but it does try to establish all the shortcuts available.

We may need to add some things to Caesar's Functional and tabular list to make it more complete. Please contribute ideas and corrections/improvements!

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